I Bought EVERY Chinese New Year Item at Costco(Best vs. Worst)

I bought EVERY Chinese New Year item at Costco to rank them Best vs. Worst! 🧧 For the 2026 Year of the Horse, I went on a mission to find all 17 Lunar New Year foods at Costco: including 7 different types of dumplings, to see which ones are "Chinese Mom Approved" and which ones you should pass.

From the viral Mila Soup Dumplings to the Chinese "Meat Floss Cake," I’m rating everything twice: The Shelf Score: Is the packaging good enough for gifting? The Mom Score: Does it actually taste good at home?

Plus, watch me turn a standard Costco Rotisserie Chicken into a spicy Sichuan appetizer and show you my secret "Restaurant Skirt" hack that makes frozen dumplings taste like $20 restaurant dish! 🥟

TIMESTAMPS & ITEMS REVIEWED:
0:00 Intro
0:11 The Mission: 17 Items for Year of the Horse
0:52 Costco Shopping Haul (New 2026 Finds)
2:19 Hack #1: Spicy Sichuan Rotisserie Chicken (Ma La Chicken)
4:04 Taste Test: Boiled Salted Duck Eggs
4:36 The Great Dumpling War (7 Brands! 2 brands stuck on the steamer, use wax paper)
4:41 Hack #2: The "Crispy Skirt" Dumpling Technique 🍳
6:11 Battle of the Soup Dumplings: Mila vs. Wagyu vs. Bibigo Pho
7:51 Mini wontons vs Bibigo Steamed dumplings
8:27 The Bakery Battle: Chicken Meat Floss Cake 🍗
9:02 Lava Pastry & Year of the Horse Assortment (Lychee cakes, taro cake, Ice Q cakes)
10:35 Asian Sweets: Pineapple Cakes , Japanese wheat cakes
11:40 The Lantern truffles ( Can you use as a lantern? testing out)
12:31 Crispy Butter Crepes and Lindt Year of horse truffles
13:24 Husband & Kids React (The Brutal Truth)
14:59 Ourtro with my kids

🛒 THE COSTCO SHOPPING LIST (2026):

Dumplings (7 Types): Mila Pork Soup Dumplings, Synear Wagyu Beef , Bibigo Beef Pho Flavor, Ling Ling Potstickers, Bibigo Organic Potstickers, Bibigo Steamed Dumplings (Tray), Bibigo Mini Wontons.

Bakery/Snacks: Yausen Chicken Meat Floss Cake, Emperor Lava Pastry, Pistis Salted Duck Eggs.

Gifts: Isabelle Year of the Horse Assortment, Isabelle Pineapple Cakes, Marunaka Baked Wheat Cake, Gavottes Crepes, Lindt Truffles, Truffettes de France.

🥡 MY SECRET SAUCE RECIPE (For the Chicken), and the dumpling skirt: find my recipe on :https://cookingbomb.com (updating on Monday)

Chili Oil, Black Vinegar, Soy Sauce, Sugar, Garlic, Sesame Seeds.


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